An El Paso man allegedly wrote a book detailing the killing of his mother, confessing to fatally choking her and staging the murder to look like an accident.
El Paso Police Department officers arrested Richard Praytor, 49, on Monday, Sept. 28, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of his mother, Maria Enoe Praytor, 79, El Paso police spokeswoman Detective Judy Oviedo said in a news release.
Officers found Maria Praytor dead under a car on June 20, 2023, inside a garage at a home in the 4500 block of Sky Hawk Avenue in the Castner Heights neighborhood in Northeast El Paso. Police believe Praytor killed his mother on June 19, 2023…